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Woodland Play 30 Sept 2019
What a lovely autumn day we had today in the woods. We put up a hammock and the children enjoyed taking turns swinging in it. We made a fire and, this week for a change, cooked some damper bread over it. The children kneaded the dough before we wound it like a snack around a stick and held it over the fire. The wood was very damp so we all had to work hard to keep the fire going. We collected some wood to store which will hopefully keep a little drier for future occasions.
Bugs and beasties under the moss 
A string trail 
Damper bread 
Tasty 
The hammock was a huge success today 
Our official opening day is today!
Butter churn
We are gearing up for our (not too) grand opening ceremony and today the children made some butter to serve with our hedgerow jam. They were very enthusiastic about pouring the cream into the butter churn and starting to turn the handle but found that their arms got tired very quickly. Churning butter is hard work! Fortunately some good turn taking allowed us to keep going until we had some lovely creamy butter. The buttermilk left was too good to waste so we made a batch of girdle scones with it to eat with our lunch.
Weather
This is a good reminder of how our use of language (including our body language!) influences children. At CVN, as we head to the autumn and winter seasons, we will be thinking positively about the range of Scottish weather coming our way!! 🌞🌪🌬⛈💦❄️🌧🌦☃️🌈
Living playhouse roof
We were given some spare rolls of turf and decided to give our playhouse a living roof. Hopefully it will add some more colour and interest to our garden.
Smoothies, Beetroot Soup and Soda Bread
We’ve been continuing to harvest some fruit and vegetables from our garden and hedgerows. Today we made a smoothie for snack and, instead of our usual sourdough bread, made soda bread. We pulled some beetroot and spring onions from the garden and made them into soup. All of our children came back for seconds!
New Table
We have had a new table delivered and our children set to work to build it, checking the instructions beforehand and making sure they had all the pieces they needed.
We were back in the woods today!
It was lovely to be back in the woods today! We have a new play site and enjoyed exploring it and seeing what different things we could find there. We had several new children with us today and it is amazing to see how much more confident and independent they became after just a few hours in the woods. We are looking forward to seeing how our sessions develop as we become more familiar with the new site.
We each chose a special tree in our site and gave it a name. The names we chose were Nursery, Bramble, Firework, Violet, Tractor, Baby Teddy, Florence and Lanky Larry. We will be keeping an eye on our trees as we move further into autumn and then winter so see how they change.
Sorting sticks
Today our children were engaged in sorting sticks and matching the different kinds of wood. Some of the sticks were marked with the ancient Celtic Ogham alphabet and some with the English name and so we tried to work out which sticks matched. The bark and markings on some of the wood were quite different.
Cambusbarron Village Nursery 